Category Amateur Wrestling

Pro wrestling with a twist: Yes, it’s real

If you tune in PAX-TV today at 4 p.m. or Fox Sports Net on Wednesday at 3 p.m. and think you see West Liberty-Salem prep legend Tim Dernlan wrestling, don’t call your cable company or try to fix your television.…

Televised pro league mixes real competition, glitz

By Heidi Pederson Star-Telegram Staff Writer Wrestler Teague Moore had been in the spotlight plenty of times as an amateur. Moore, 29, was an NCAA champion for Oklahoma State, a U.S. champion many times over, and had won a world…

Cael enjoying coaching life

North Iowa Sports Story Wrestling: Sanderson enjoying time as assistant coach By KIRK HARDCASTLE, Of The Globe Gazette CHARLES CITY ” One by one the Charles City high school students asked for an autograph or a picture. And one by…

Alex Marvez’s weekly look at pro wrestling

Not even a day-after-Christmas fire could ruin the gift Toby Willis is trying to give Olympic-style wrestling. That December blaze destroyed Willis’ Nashville-area home and adjacent production facility containing the master copies of the inaugural seasonof his Real Pro Wrestling…

Hipps Toss: End of the Season Awards

The Wrestling Mall Columnist Breaks Down Some of the Best Perfomers of the 2004-05 Season By Andrew Hipps “Staff WriterPlease send comments, questions or replies to: [email protected] With the national tournaments now in the books, I will dole out my…

U.S. WRESTLER FARUK SAHIN SUSPENDED FOR TWO YEARS FOR DOPING

Submitted by: E.Goldman/Boxing & Wrestling Editor Not all sports organizations are putting on the charade which Major League Baseball is currently doing when it comes to the fight against doping. USA Wrestling is one which takes it quite seriously, and…

Home fund-raiser for wrestling facility continues

By CRAIG OTTO/Staff writer A raffle for a new home north of Holmen to help fund former Holmen High School head wrestling coach Dave Rudrud’s dream of a separate wrestling facility at HHS is still ongoing, though organizers say they…

Wrestling — not the fake kind — televised

BY JO-ANN BARNASFREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER Think wrestling on TV, and many baby boomers conjure up images of another era — the Iron Sheik and his dreaded camel clutch; Rowdy Roddy Piper and his infamous sleeper hold. But these days,…

PG East: WVU’s Jones wins NCAA wrestling title again

By Ken Wunderley, Tri-State Sports & News Service Iowa State wrestling coach Bobby Douglas couldn’t have summed it up any better after watching West Virginia senior Greg Jones win his third NCAA Division I title. “Greg Jones is a very…

Smith finishes off career on down note at nationals

By Chris Weeden Collegian Staff Writer It was supposed to be the Hollywood ending for the “good guy. “He’s got the girl, but he just couldn’t get the gold. Senior Penn State wrestler Adam Smith left for St. Louis last…

NCAA Wrestling Championships attendees top 95,000

The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in St. Louis March 17-19 brought in more than 95,000 attendees, beating expectations, the St. Louis Sports Commission said. The 94,459 attendees was the second highest total attendance in the 75 years the tournament…